Weekend Recap

Our weekend was way more fun than usual thanks to our house guests James & Jessica. The kids had such a good time together and entertained themselves beautifully so I got a lot of reading done (The Thirteenth Tale needs to be finished by Wednesday). Jessica asked me why I was in bed when I could be up making cookies for the kids?! I told her we had NO shortage of treats here and that I wasn't in bed, I was cold and like to read under my blanket.


The boys built box forts, played video games, rode bikes, shot Nerf dart guns, harassed the girls and laughed like crazy.


The girls did every art project imaginable, played Littlest Pet Shops, ate everything in sight, played games and tortured the boys by not letting them play with Whitney's slinky (don't ask).


They all stayed up super late both nights playing board games, giggling and reading scary stories in bed. It was fun to listen to them laugh. Randy and I didn't care if they stayed up super late because they were in the bedroom and a sleepover is such a rare occurrence that it seemed cruel to make them stop having fun.


On Saturday Randy took Whitney to a birthday party at the Kangaroo Zoo. The invitation made it sound like parents were supposed to stay (*@$!$) so Randy opted for that while I took Jessica, Landon and James to see The Bee Movie. We ordered our tickets online, but it was still crazy at the theater. Jessica's dad had given her money for the movies so she was feeling all powerful about buying the treats. She bought a large popcorn, 2 large drinks and a box of Butterfingers (never mind that she had a bag of candy with her in my purse). But then we weren't able to get 4 seats together, so the boys had the popcorn and drinks, so she went out to get more popcorn. It was crazy. She also bought the boys their own box of Butterfingers so it was a very pricey trip to the movies.


When I checked on the kids before heading to bed late Saturday night this is what I found. I could not believe James, Whitney and Jessica were dead asleep sandwiched so close together like that. Their feet were hanging off the bed! I thought it was so cute. The next morning I asked them if they had slept all night like that and they said "Yes!" They also informed me that the reason for sleeping like that is that they had seen an earwig on James' sleeping bag! Oh dear. Why didn't they call me or Randy to come take care of it? Surely cramming together on a twin bed couldn't have been the best option.


Yesterday meant a morning of 4 kids playing (amusing and fine), Jessica making sandwiches for everybody (she's very helpful) and getting everyone ready for church. We even made it 15 minutes early...nice.


Amie picked the kids up right after church even though I had told her I would bring them home after we ate dinner. They knew we were having roast and were excited for dinner, so it was kind of cruel to drag them away right as we were sitting down to dinner. They were chanting in the car "Hungry, hungry" asthey drove away.


Our house seemed way too quiet after they left. We had Family Home Evening and even got BOOed finally! Someone dropped off a plate of very tasty chocolate cookies and a note that said "Everyone deserves to be BOOed! I just hope it's better late than never!" We were delighted. I had been bugged/bummed that we hadn't been BOOed during October when everyone was doing it. I blame it on where we live since we're not in a neighborhood with everyone else from church, so we're forgotten. So it was nice that someone remembered us! (If it's one of you lovely blog readers, THANKS!!)

**Did you get BOOed?
Do you remember having crazy sleepovers?
Do your kids play well with friends?
Did you see The Bee Movie?**